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Houghton Mifflin / Riverside Press - first printing, 1956. hardcover, 5½" x 8½", with dust jacket. Front endpaper has been cut out. Jacket has extensive wear (scuffed, chipped, tears), Binding sound, text clear. GOOD book in GOOD unclipped dust jacket. In a book as exuberant as her personality, Letitia Baldrige tells the story of her three years as ring-master of one of the busiest, gayest, most important Embassy residences in the world: the Villa Taverna, permanent residence of the American Ambassador to Italy. The Villa is in Rome and Tish's Ambassador was Clare Boothe Luce. It was the beginning of the author's love affair with the Italian people.